what does that mean - provide enough accessibility.
--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Tyler Littlefield <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Tyler Littlefield <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [c-prog] virus
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 10:06 AM
I really want to switch to linux, as soon as they provide enough
accessibility for me to.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tamas Marki
To: c-p...@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: [c-prog] virus
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Thomas Hruska <thru...@cubiclesoft .com> wrote:
> Paul Herring wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Thomas Hruska <thru...@cubiclesoft .com>
>> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Plus, using VerifyMyPC, I've had the joy of watching my product catch
>>> both Microsoft AND Google with their pants down updating my computer
>>> WITHOUT my explicit permission.
>> I'm sure there are clauses in their EULA's whereby you have given such
>> permission.
> EULA, pff. It is called _trust_. To gain (and keep) my trust, apps.
> need to tell me _exactly_ what is happening to my computer at all times
> and offer me an option to NOT do something when it affects files and
> registry entries on my system. Thus, I haven't trusted a company since
> the DOS days.
I am very surprised you are not using an open source OS. The main
reason I switched my desktops to Linux a few years ago was exactly
this: I felt that under Windows I really had no control over what's
happening.
There are just so many possibilities for malware it's astounding. Read
this interview, it's very interesting:
http://philosecurit y.org/2009/ 01/12/interview- with-an-adware- author
In OSS at least you have all the source code, you can inspect it and
control everything up to the kernel level (I know it would be stupid
to do so, but the knowledge that it's all transparent is relaxing).
I will never go back to Windows as my primary OS, because I always
feel I might be a node in a botnet and never know about it.
--
Tamas Marki
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